The document proposes creating a time capsule at Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) to preserve items representing the school's legacy. The plan is to gather student, faculty, and alumni support; research time capsules; purchase a capsule with funding partners; collect representative items; and reveal the sealed capsule in 2015. The team fundraised, researched archives standards, and promoted the capsule on social media and flyers. They encountered challenges like financial costs but resolved them by partnering with other organizations to support a larger capsule housed in the library. The reveal event was a success.

1. PRESERVING A LEGACY:
SPSU TIME
CAPSULE
VERA FILATOVA, STEVE MADGETT, BECCA TUCK, JIAXIN ZHANG

2. 1.
PROPOSAL OF
ACTION

3. OUR PLAN
1. CREATE AN SPSU TIME CAPSULE
2. GATHER SUPPORT from current SPSU students, faculty, staff, and alumni
3. ADVERTISE via social media (Facebook), the DWMA department, flyers, and word-of-mouth
4. RESEARCH time capsules, the time capsule society, and archival procedures
5. PURCHASE our time capsule, with the partnership of Rock on SPSU, Student Life, and SGA
6. FUNDRAISE for money to purchase a nameplate for the capsule
7. COLLECT ITEMS for the capsule and create a record of each item
8. REVEAL THE CAPSULE at the SPSU Homegoing event on 4/25/15

4. FUNDRAISING
We hosted a Bake Sale on campus and
raised $74. The money raised from our
Bake Sale went towards purchasing a
name plate for the time capsule, as well
as photo paper to print photo
submissions.

5. RESEARCH
We spent a lot of time researching time
capsules. This included:
○ Meeting with the KSU archivists
○ Locating the International Time
Capsule Society, which happens to be
located in Atlanta, GA

6. 2.
TIMELINE

7. TIMELINE
MARCH 30 - APRIL
20
● FUNDRAISER
● COLLECTION
MARCH 16 - 25
● PROMOTION
● RESEARCH
APRIL 25
● REVEAL CEREMONY
● SEAL CAPSULE*
● DISPLAY IN
LIBRARY
*Time Capsule will be opened on April 1, 2050

8. 3.
DECISION MAKING
& CONFLICT
RESOLUTION

9. INITIAL
EXPECTATIONS
○ Primarily digitally based artifacts
○ Stored in a facility outside the university
○ Build and finance capsule ourselves
○ A lot of similar SPSU memorabilia

10. STRUGGLES
& MODIFICATIONS
○ Lack of response to online promotion
● Accommodating late majority and laggards
○ Offer to store at KSU archives
● High quality but low acceptance
○ Financial challenge of finding a new,
bigger capsule
● Higher quality capsule cost up to $1,500

11. ○ Housed at SPSU LIBRARY
○ Partnership with Rock on SPSU, Student
Life, and SGA funded a bigger capsule
○ DIRECT CORRESPONDENCE with
organizations and WORD OF MOUTH
○ Artifacts PERSONAL to fellow students
and organizations
○ Discovering the DIVERSITY
within the university
RESOLUTIONS
& SUCCESSES

12. 4.
EVIDENCE
OF RESULTS

13. TIME CAPSULE
REVEAL
○ SATURDAY, APRIL 25TH
@ 7:30PM
○ Organized by Rock On SPSU
○ Part of SPSU HomeGoing

14. ○ Reach out to student organizations first
○ More structured requirements for capsule
○ Host main drop off closer to the end, rather than the beginning
CHANGES

15. 4.
PUBLIC SERVICE
VIDEO

16. P
S
A

17. 6.
CONTACTS
& ORGANIZATIONS

18. CONTACTS
PROMOTION
○ Sarah Weldon,
DWMA Social
Media Director
○ Ron Lunk,
Student Activities
○ Desmond Hilson Jr.,
Editor-in-Chief,
The Sting
ARCHIVES
○ Aaron Wimer,
Head of Reference
○ Tamara
Livingston, Director
of Archives
CO-SPONSORS &
CONTRIBUTORS
○ Dr. Kim Haimes-Korn,
Faculty Mentor
○ DWMA
○ Rock on SPSU
○ Student Life
○ Student Government
Association (SGA)

19. ORGANIZATIONS
INTERNATIONAL TIME
CAPSULE SOCIETY
○ Based at Oglethorpe University
in Atlanta, GA
○ Primary mission is a registry of
all known time capsules
Oglethorpe University, home to ITCS and Crypt of Civilization

20. 7.
PROMOTION
& SOCIAL MEDIA

21. PROMOTION
& SOCIAL MEDIA
○ MASS EMAIL to students, faculty, staff
○ Flyers in J-BUILDING
○ In the STING LEGACY April magazine
○ facebook.com/spsutimecapsule
● Shared by DWMA page
● Shared by THE STING page
● Shared on KSU - MARIETTA
CAMPUS page

22. FACEBOOK
CAMPAIGN

23. 9.
PROCESS OF
COLLABORATION

24. GROUP MEMBER ROLES
PROJECT MANAGER
Becca Tuck
COMMUNICATIONS
Vera Filatova
PROMOTIONAL DESIGN
Jiaxin Zhang
BUILDER
Steve Madgett

25. THE COLLABORATION PROCESS

26. 10.
INFOGRAPHIC:
COLLABORATION

27. Presentation template by SlidesCarnival, DWMA logo created by SPSU student, Celia Fisher, Infographic created by Piktochart